UGA basketball player arrested for vehicle violations

Georgia forward Chris Barnes was arrested on Thursday and charged with vehicle insurance and registration violations, an Athens-Clarke County police report said.

The police report said that the arresting officer was driving on Hawthorne Avenue and saw a vehicle with an expired tag. The report said that the vehicle “pulled suddenly off the road when the driver noticed my police car.”

The arresting officer stopped Barnes in Applebee’s parking lot on West Broad Street at about 6:20 p.m. Barnes was cited and arrested for driving a vehicle without insurance and canceled registration.

Barnes’ arrest is the basketball team’s first since Billy Humphrey’s drunk driving arrest last June. Humphrey was later dismissed from the team.

It is also the team’s first arrest since Mark Fox was named head coach last month.